Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order Control

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"Miss Zilphia Gant", 371 (Event)
Environment: Place›Playground
Actions: Interaction, Private›Domineering | Interaction, Private›Parenting | Play›School recess
Cultural Issues: Age›Childhood
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Control
"Miss Zilphia Gant", 372 (Event)
Actions: Bodily›Vomiting | Emotional›Fury | Emotional›Terror | Interaction, Private›Domineering | Violent›Hitting
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Unspecified sickness | Violence›Child abuse
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Control
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
"Miss Zilphia Gant", 373 (Event)
Environment: Weather›Cold | Weather›Mild | Weather›Rain
Actions: Interaction, Social›Visiting | Perceptual›Surveillance | Physical›Waiting
Cultural Issues: Gender›Masculine woman
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Control | Psychological›Paranoia
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
"Miss Zilphia Gant", 373 (Event)
Actions: Interaction, Private›Domineering | Perceptual›Investigating
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Control
"Miss Zilphia Gant", 374 (Event)
Environment: Place›Lonelier parts of town
Actions: Movement›Return | Movement›Walking | Physical›Pursuit
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Control
"Miss Zilphia Gant", 375 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Attraction | Interaction, Private›Domineering
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Control
Aesthetics: Typography/Orthography›Dots
"Spotted Horses", 167 (Event)
Environment: Place›Corral
Cultural Issues: Economy›Auction
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Control
"Spotted Horses", 168 (Event)
Actions: Economic›Auction | Emotional›Despair | Interaction, Social›Auction | Mental›Speculation | Physical›Washing clothes
Cultural Issues: Class›Ambition | Clothes›Rural poverty | Gender›Men vs women
Themes and Motifs: Absence/Loss›Absence as disguise | Chaos/Order›Control | Chaos/Order›Wildness
Relationships: Marital›Abusive
Aesthetics: Diction›Western vernacular | Recurring Episodes›Texas horses auctioned
"Spotted Horses", 174 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Control
"The Tall Men", 48 (Event)
Environment: Domestic Space›Hall
Actions: Moral›Corrupting
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Control
Aesthetics: Narrative›Delayed revelation
The Hamlet, 302 (Event)
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Control
The Sound and the Fury, 164 (Event)
Environment: Auditory›Streetcar sound
Actions: Bodily›Bleeding | Perceptual›Blurring | Verbal›Bragging | Verbal›Joking | Violent›Fighting
Cultural Issues: Alcohol›Drunkenness | Clothes›Dirty | Clothes›Vest | Gender›Masculinity | Gender›Sexual double standard | Health and Illness›Injured | Sexuality›Promiscuity
Themes and Motifs: Body›Eyes | Chaos/Order›Control | Futility›Failure to defend honor | Recurring Tropes›Twilight | Time›Return to present time
Relationships: Friendship›College companions / classmates | Friendship›College roommate
Aesthetics: Allusion, Geographical›Atlantic City, New Jersey | Allusion, Mythical›Leda and the Swan
The Sound and the Fury, 180 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Anger
Cultural Issues: Education›Parenting | Education›Truancy | Gender›Chauvinism / Misogyny | Prejudice›Racism | Race›Behaving/becoming "black"
Themes and Motifs: Chaos/Order›Control
Relationships: Familial›Mother-son | Familial›Uncle-niece
Aesthetics: Diction›Misogynistic wording | Diction›Racist term | Tone›Sarcastic